North West Europe

Horda Platform: Exploring the Cretaceous

Map showing the location of the new CGG multi- client survey. The annotated seismic line runs from south to north-east across the area. Cretaceous reservoirs in the Northern North Sea…

A Golden Celebration for Silver Seas

50 years on from the first oil and gas discoveries in the North Sea we celebrate this golden anniversary by looking back at this important center of oil and gas…

Exploring the Mid North Sea high

Hunting the carboniferous play New regional broadband 3D seismic data reveals more information about the geology of this poorly understood region. CGG recently undertook the acquisition of a large 3D…

Hoop Basin: Drilling success and playground for new exploration methods

The Hoop Basin The integration of several data sets will be essential for hydrocarbon exploration in the Hoop Fault Complex area of the Barents Sea. The Hoop Fault Complex has…

‘What Oilfields?’ Onshore Oil in the UK

A prelude to the great discoveries of the North Sea, the onshore oilfields provide a fascinating insight into the history of UK oil. In Victorian times, there were many reports in…

Memories of Iraqi Kurdistan

In 2003, the fall of Saddam Hussein opened up semi-autonomous Kurdistan to foreign investment. It also revived the interest of oil companies in the region, which had been explored, but…

Towed streamer EM for success

Close-up of Johan Castberg area. Example comparison between the measured resistivity at wells in the Johan Castberg and Caurus areas and the resistivity recovered via anisotropic inversion. See the big…

South West Barents Sea

Survey area superimposed on the main structural elements and license situation of the western Barents Sea. Geoseismic representation of an inline within the South West Barents Sea fast track – post stack…

SHETLAND ROCKS! Improved sub-basalt structural imaging

Left: Location of the Faroe Shetland Basin (FSB) dataset. Right: FSB dataset line location map. West of Shetland: improved sub–basalt imaging Newly reprocessed long offset seismic data from the Faroe…